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"I have never found someone with the devotion, hard-working dedication and simple all-out effort that I have found in Joe" former Medford resident RECORD PRODUCER JIMMY MILLER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJRdDhnTRoo
Jimmy's father, the great Bill Miller, produced Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, had Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at his club, orchestrated Elvis Presley's return to Las Vegas and said of Joe Viglione "You've got a hell of a publicist."
Hello Friends and Colleagues and Interested Parties:
The TV3 Financial Records should arrive this week after about 5 1/2 years of doing public records request battles with the AG's office.
This is quite significant in that enormous funds at Medford Community Cablevision, Inc were abused in some cases (100k for frivolous lawsuits and anti-SLAPP violations,) and in other cases not properly accounted for.
I challenge Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn to work with me to investigate the missing TV3 Medford monies.
That's Transparency with a capital T.
My City Council speech in six days first focuses on taking journalist/teacher Alison Goldsberry's advice with her tribunal and moving the station to a central location. By prosecuting alleged individuals who didn't watch our TV3 monies properly there could be funding that the city has not recovered. Shame on the previous two administrations and the former city solicitor for failing to do their jobs.
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The former city solicitor was either appointed by McGlynn or took it upon himself to feign that he was "investigating" the very board that he sat on. He gave Arthur Deluca, Frank Pilleri, Harvey Alberg and Ron Delucia ten days to hand over proper financial records. They scoffed at Rumley, which was part of their game - humiliate him. Rumley, having been appointed to the board once or twice, never took serious actions to curb the spending. In Cambridge District Court Mr. Rumley was aiding and abetting what Judge Jackson-Thompson queried could be alleged "malfeasance." I personally had the judge throw Mayor McGlynn's cousin-by-marriage off of the case. Rumley, who was my witness under subpoena, gave legal advice to TV3 further costing ratepayers a small fortune. This is fact.
Rumley was the enemy of access television, the nasty wolf in the hen house, working alongside disgraced former city clerk Ed Finn after Finn committed felonious assault on my person after a city council meeting on or about June 16, 2015. Tv3 had assaulted me April 2010 at the city council. The police determining that I was the sole victim. Councilor Adam Knight then engaged the services of the individual who threw a punch at me in front of Rumley's office. Knight used that violent person to go after Bob Penta in the 2015 election via ugly YouTube videos.
Rumley gave his pals another 10 days in an investigation Rumley lied and said was different from the AG's investigation. Then Rumley threw it to the Attorney General's office after saying it was separate from their investigation.
In the past six years I have reached out to the Public Charities Division to hand over the documents.
After my victory with the L'Italien Report and Medford High School documents I utilized the same language the Secretary of State's lawyers used in those victories and finally have documents on TV3 that the Secretary of State's office said I will obtain this week.
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This is hard work and honest effort.
Breanna ran on utilizing the skills of Medford residents, not going outside the region. So why is a station manager allegedly from
Georgetown having a class tonight at the high school when on Saturday no such class was listed on the website?
Because I exposed station manager Patrick Gordon's alleged "compensation fraud" of getting paid Seventy Thousand Dollars and having infrequent classes, a horrible Twitter account, lackluster membership (currently #1 on my blog today, of GREAT public interest,) a failure to do outreach, a failure to facilitate programming, denying a senior citizen membership...that is not access TV.
I challenge Breanna Lungo-Koehn to stand by her promise of UNITY. I'm giving her the TV station "transparency" that I have to work very hard, over a period of years, to gather for the public.
The lawsuit Demarest vs. Athol/Orange is about not censoring. It's incumbent upon our mayor as franchising authority / issuing authority to understand that she, as the "Executive Director" of TV3 has violated the "Censorship" clause of the Verizon and Comcast contracts as surely as Patrick Gordon has. This Pontius Pilate act of washing her hands and blaming Pat Gordon for the censorship lacks dignity.
Go to 5.6 of the Verizon agreement regarding Censorship
When members of the public come to me because they can't get anywhere with Pat Gordon, there's a problem.
Verizon Agreement
Go to 6.8 of the Comcast contract, same thing.
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These are facts. These are the promises city hall made to the cable providers not to censor.
Yet our new mayor who ran on integrity is failing to uphold her promise as well as the law. As Issuing Authority Breanna has to obey the law, her oath of office and her obligations with that position of franchising authority.
If Breanna wants unity my phone number is in her Rolodex.
If the phone rings and Breanna or Daria Tejera or Kim Scanlon or David Rodrigues phone me and want a meeting about a new cable advisory board and utilizing my skills that Breanna said on the campaign trail are what she is looking for - OUR SKILLS as a community, then she kept her promise.
If the phone rings and Breanna or Daria Tejera or Kim Scanlon or David Rodrigues phone me and want a meeting about a new cable advisory board and utilizing my skills that Breanna said on the campaign trail are what she is looking for - OUR SKILLS as a community, then she kept her promise.
If Breanna deems certain individuals in Medford are too 'controversial" because they actually get things done, well, then we cannot trust the new mayor, and that would be a tough pill to swallow.
Tomorrow is the 2nd month since the inauguration. Access Television is the generator of community participation. McGlynn loathed it and Muccini-Burke hid from it. This is the best opportunity Breanna Lungo-Koehn has to show that she is different from the past two administrations.
Breanna needs to embrace ALL of us who want to participate, not discriminate and pick and choose. Not when Neil Osborne - a civil rights attorney of all things - is more like the Director of No Diversity and Exclusion. Neil, really, show some spine. If you ever want to be mayor in the future, Mr. Osborne you're not going about it the right way. I'd like to see a fighter in the diversity office. Neil acts more like the dude at the senior center M.C.ing Friday night Bingo. Really. The seniors need inclusion and legal help, and Neil offers pizza,
ginger ale and Bingo night.
Neil Osborne wants to be "Mr. Nice Guy" and do things nice and easy when we need a Diversity Director to step on toes, step on Pat Gordon's toes and tell him to get in line, stop excluding people, or ship out.
That's what Osborne's job description is.
If Neil Osborne and Breanna don't want to remove Patrick Gordon, I know someone with quite a bit of experience who can get rid of the bad station manager. All I have to do is look in the mirror to see that guy. I like what I see - a fighter, a man Michael Marks says is articulate and smart, a man judges call "intelligent" and "very logical."
I've given you the facts, I've given you the law. Patrick Gordon offers your kids a class tonight with about 48 hours notice, like John Falco allegedly slipping an open meeting in 49 hours in advance...which, Mr. Falco, I object to. Open Meeting Laws should have a 2 week notice and each and every "open" meeting in this city should be publicized in all the news media ...well in advance.
This award-winning P/E/G access producer won on merit. TV3 stuffed the ACM ballots, what a joke. ACM asks for money to hand out awards, and TV3 Medford used our monies - not to facilitate program, but so Harvey Alberg and Ron Delucia could run around saying they had won something in a manner that was deceptive and wrong. That money was for access television, not phony awards to use in a way that distracted the citizens from seeing the money managers do some real accountability.
That accountability is coming, and I will be pressuring the mayor to go after the board of directors of MCC TV3 to recover the 38k that was not accounted for in the Medford Transcript, and ask the money managers to explain the public documents that are vague and not the kind of bookkeeping a public charity is obligated to provide. Shame on Mark Rumley for not keeping them honest.
Ron Delucia bragged about "sloppy bookkeeping" to the city council, yet used the TV station's staff to create his infomercial "Money Managers," and Michael Marks - shame on him - called them respected members of the community at the city council?
Maybe Michael Marks should send a city council award to Bernie Madoff as well.
Mr. Marks - Madoff's mailing address is: Bernard L. Madoff, Inmate #61727054, Butner Medium FCI, PO Box 1000, Butner, NC 27509.
Send him a congratulations if you are going to congratulate individuals who abused the TV station to try to get business from unsuspecting citizens. Heck, you're "only" grabbing 30k a year on a city council that is the pure definition of compensation fraud.
Let someone else do your job for you and get the TV3 financial records.
Medford's Keeper of the Records has my public records FOIA request for city hall's records as well.
Now we're going to have the opportunity to have Chief Buckley go after TV3, recover our monies, and let's buy a building like
Stoneham and Winthrop did, an investment instead of suing access TV producers that Art Deluca and his board are jealous of.
Madame Mayor - you made some campaign promises you have yet to keep.
I'm doing the hard work...my goal is to open up access TV to the citizens of Medford. Do you want my goal of 2,000 members of
TV3, or will you let Pat Gordon put his own name down as a member to beef-up his lame and ridiculous membership count?
Is our mayor honest about the TV3 situation? That's the question voters need to ask for the 2022 election.
"I have never found someone with the devotion, hard-working dedication and simple all-out effort that I have found in Joe"
former Medford resident RECORD PRODUCER JIMMY MILLER
Jimmy's father, the great Bill Miller, produced Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, had Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at his club,
orchestrated Elvis Presley's return to Las Vegas and said of Joe Viglione "You've got a hell of a publicist."
Something to think about. There's a new newspaper in Medford due to the honest efforts of that publicist.
I can praise those who do good, and this "hell of a publicist" can raise holy hell exposing the political lies.
Choose which aspect of the menu you would like for the next two years.
Do NOT underestimate my ability to right the ship. I got rid of Frank Pilleri and Uncle Gene McGillicuddy.
I would rather be building a new access TV station than filing FOIA requests.
Respectfully,
Joe Viglione